Parliament Speaker claims citizens will have to make “choice between war and peace” in October elections

Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Wednesday claimed the country’s citizens would have to “make a choice between war and peace” in the parliamentary elections scheduled for October 26.

In his interview with Imedi TV, Papuashvili denounced domestic political groups for for their attempts to “rebrand and distance themselves from their past” under the opposition United National Movement party.

These are scenarios written from outside that we have seen a few times. [...] Its authors are those who create resolutions and write in them that [the imprisoned former President Mikheil] Saakashvili is a political prisoner”, the lawmaker alleged.

“Its authors are those who appoint Zurab Adeishvili [the wanted former UNM official] as the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, then meet him in Strasbourg and Brussels in offices from which the same people lecture us on the justice-related issues”, he added.

Papuashvili also told the channel Georgian citizens were “very well-aware of what the choice will be” in the elections, and further pointed out they would “have a choice between war and peace, [and] this choice is more obvious today”.